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KDE Accessibility Project

Welcome to the home page of the KDE Accessibility Project.

Quickstart

E.g. in Kubuntu 22.10:

sudo apt install kcalc accerciser
# As per https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Accessibility/AT-SPI2/
export QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
# Or export QT_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY_ALWAYS_ON=1
kcalc &
accerciser &

The application accerciser has the title Accerciser Accessibility Explorer. kcalc should appear in the application accerciser, in the left hand side tree view. If kcalc does not appear, from the accerciser application's main menu > View > Refresh Registry.

Accessibility applications

Technical Information For Application Developers

Read the KDE Human Interface Guidelines https://develop.kde.org/hig/accessibility/

Community Documentation

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Accessibility/AT-SPI2/
Also ask on the IRC channel #kde-accessibility on Libera Chat or #kde-accessibility on Matrix https://webchat.kde.org/#/room/#kde-accessibility:kde.org
https://help.gnome.org/users/accerciser/stable/index.html https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/accerciser
https://apachelog.wordpress.com/2022/12/14/selenium-at-spi-gui-testing/ https://invent.kde.org/sdk/selenium-webdriver-at-spi

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+[[File:Mascot konqi-app-system.png|thumbnail|right|Help [[Konqi]] improve KDE's accessibility!]]
 == KDE Accessibility Project ==
 Welcome to the home page of the KDE Accessibility Project.
-=== User Documentation ===
+== Quickstart ==
-You can find user documentation on UserBase:
+E.g. in Kubuntu 22.10:
-* http://userbase.kde.org/Applications/Accessibility
+{{Input|1=<nowiki>
-* http://userbase.kde.org/KMag
+sudo apt install kcalc accerciser
-* http://userbase.kde.org/KMouseTool
+# As per https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Accessibility/AT-SPI2/
-* http://userbase.kde.org/KMouth
+export QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
-* http://userbase.kde.org/KTTS
+# Or export QT_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY_ALWAYS_ON=1
-* http://userbase.kde.org/System_Settings/Accessibility
+kcalc &
+accerciser &
+</nowiki>}}
-=== Application Pages ===
+The application accerciser has the title Accerciser Accessibility Explorer.
+kcalc should appear in the application accerciser, in the left hand side tree view.
+If kcalc does not appear, from the accerciser application's main menu > View > Refresh Registry.
-You can find some details on individual Accessibility apps on the application pages.
+== Accessibility applications ==
-* http://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kmag/
+* https://apps.kde.org/categories/utilities/#accessibility
-* http://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kmousetool/
+* https://apps.kde.org/kmag
-* http://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kmouth/
+* https://apps.kde.org/kmousetool
-* http://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/jovie/
+* https://apps.kde.org/kmouth
-* http://simon-listens.org/
+* https://userbase.kde.org/System_Settings/Accessibility
-=== Technical Information For Application Developers ===
+== Technical Information For Application Developers ==
-For technical information on how to make your application accessible please see the following TechBase pages:
+Read the KDE Human Interface Guidelines https://develop.kde.org/hig/accessibility/
-* http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Accessibility
+== Community Documentation ==
-* http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Text-To-Speech
-* http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Guidelines/HCI/Checklists
-=== Community Documentation ===
+* https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Accessibility/AT-SPI2/
+* Also ask on the IRC channel #kde-accessibility on [https://libera.chat Libera Chat] or #kde-accessibility on Matrix https://webchat.kde.org/#/room/#kde-accessibility:kde.org
-* http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/08/23/accessibility-on-linux/
+* https://help.gnome.org/users/accerciser/stable/index.html https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/accerciser
-* see also: [[Accessibility/qt-atspi|Qt AT-SPI 2 Bridge]]
+* https://apachelog.wordpress.com/2022/12/14/selenium-at-spi-gui-testing/ https://invent.kde.org/sdk/selenium-webdriver-at-spi
-=== Historic ===
-The old KDE3 Accessibility site is available at [http://accessibility.kde.org/ accessibility.kde.org]